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Ubuntu To Eventually Have Its Own SDK

Phoronix: Ubuntu To Eventually Have Its Own SDK

As I wrote over the weekend, Canonical is planning to eventually ship its own SDK (Software Development Kit) for Ubuntu Linux to ease software development on the open-source platform. The Ubuntu SDK won't happen for the Ubuntu 13.04 release, but work is being planned about what to include in this Ubuntu-specific SDK...

Alright. They're just trying to make developing apps for Ubuntu easier, I get that. But do they seriously expect some credible apps (think: Steam, LibreOffice, Google Earth, Adobe Photoshop) to be made using these Ubuntu-specific tools? Heck, the SDK will probably be leaning on Python for programming language.

You got it completely wrong, you can ship current libs but the libc6 used must be old enough to allow other distros run the code, that's the main dependency of a system. Some HIB games come out and only ran with Ubuntu and not Debian, that's definitely wrong. Partly only the installer was compiled against that new code - manually extracting helped but that's not user friendly. The Linux world does not only consists of Ubuntu only - they just intend to ship always a very new libc6...

Makes sense

Fact 1: There are thousend apps written for Linux/Android, for each one written for other distros combined.
Fact 2: Reason for this is that documentation, IDE and packaging is on different level then for Ubuntu (Fedora, ...).
Fact 3: While tools like Emacs and M4 were OK in 1985, for new kids learning their skills on iOS, Android and HTML5, it looks like joke.